Distillery District - DISH GALLERY + Studio

MYSTIC CLAY PAD

Susan Card - Toronto, Canada
Derek Chung - Warkworth, Canada
Dallas Card - Toronto, Canada

Interactive Performance of Public Art

Inspired by a short text by Freud, the MYSTIC CLAY PAD will function as a collective memory machine, recording and preserving ephemeral traces of the event. Simultaneously visitors will see and create a record of digital communications sent from other zones across Toronto, projected as successive text messages onto wet clay. Collaborate with participants, both seen and unseen, as editors and scribes to create a permanent record of the evening's thoughts. Decide what will remain and what will be lost in this interactive performance of public art.

Overnight the Mystic Clay Pad will emerge to accompany the ceramic exhibition Text As Drawing by gallery artists:

Banfield, Brandao, Card, Card, Cheng, Chung, Chung, Dias-D'Sousa, Donaldson, Flock, Graham, Kauffman, Kelk, Lepkin, McInally, Rose, Smith, Sullivan, Tokita & Têtu.

Suitable for all ages